42 offers and counting for Florida DE

Steve Ryan

04/11/2010

When the offers start getting beyond 20, you have to figure that it's going to be hard to make sense of it all. Well, Anthony Chickillo has over double that. And trying to make sense of it all is exactly what he's trying to do. So, when a school is trying to make inroads with him, making sure he doesn't forget them is one way to do it.

The name
"Ndamukong Suh" is probably in a decent percentage of the updates you
see around the country on defensive tackles still at the prep level.
They want to be him, whether it means winning the kind of hardware he
did at the collegiate level or being a certain member of the top three
in this year's NFL Draft.

Who wouldn't want to be him?

Anthony Chickillo wouldn't mind. But he's a defensive end,
not a defensive tackle. As he said, though, you don't have to be on the
inside to appreciate what the Husker legend has done. "I'm a big fan of
Ndamukong Suh. Every chance I get to watch him, I do. I just like
defensive linemen and he's obviously a really good one," he said.

But Chickillo can say something Suh can't, and that's 42. Meaning,
that's how many offers he's up to right now.

This
off-season, though, if you can truly call it that, will see him trying
to visit as many schools as he can, some of which he already has a good
idea about. "I'm pretty sure I am going to go visit Alabama, Auburn,
Georgia, LSU, USC and Tennessee," he said, indicating that his visit to
USC was going to be to attend their "Rising Stars" camp over the Summer.

And believe it or not, Nebraska was supposed to be a trip
he was going to take a bit earlier than those. "I wanted to make it up
there this next weekend for their Spring game. But we just couldn't work
it out to where I was going to be able to make that trip," Chickillo
said.

For Husker fans they are probably glad the Big Red
is in his mind as much as they are. But with Nebraska being the former
home of Suh, that's one reason they will stay in the conversation. And
it doesn't hurt who is recruiting him. "Coach J.P. is recruiting me.
He's a really cool guy," Chickillo said of Defensive Ends Coach John Papuchis, arguably the best recruiter for the Huskers. "I know they send
me a lot of mail. They are definitely one of the schools recruiting me
the hardest right now."

You can imagine that Chickillo
doesn't have any favorites, but he said that he'll have to have sometime
soon. With the clear idea that he wants to enroll early, he's going to
have to make up his mind at least on a list of favorites before his
final season begins.

He's hoping that's how it works
out.

"Yeah, that's what I am trying to do. I want to
have a top five before the end of the Summer," he said.

Cue the
traveling music?

Those schools above are those he
believes he'll make it to see. But the list of the other schools he'd
like to stop by and check out, that's a list a whole lot longer.
Chickillo said that Nebraska is still a very real shot to be a trip he
can make, either in June or July. But we'll probably have to wait until
around then to see if that actually pans out.

But there are no
favorites on Chickillo's monumental list, at least right now. But we
know it will probably only be a couple of months before that changes,
perhaps dramatically.

The name \"Ndamukong Suh\" is probably in a decent percentage of the updates you see around the country on defensive tackles still at the prep level. They want to be him, whether it means winning the kind of hardware he did at the collegiate level or being a certain member of the top three in this year's NFL Draft.

Who wouldn't want to be him?

Anthony Chickillo wouldn't mind. But he's a defensive end, not a defensive tackle. As he said, though, you don't have to be on the inside to appreciate what the Husker legend has done. \"I'm a big fan of Ndamukong Suh. Every chance I get to watch him, I do. I just like defensive linemen and he's obviously a really good one,\" he said.

But Chickillo can say something Suh can't, and that's 42. Meaning, that's how many offers he's up to right now.

This off-season, though, if you can truly call it that, will see him trying to visit as many schools as he can, some of which he already has a good idea about. \"I'm pretty sure I am going to go visit Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, LSU, USC and Tennessee,\" he said, indicating that his visit to USC was going to be to attend their \"Rising Stars\" camp over the Summer.

And believe it or not, Nebraska was supposed to be a trip he was going to take a bit earlier than those. \"I wanted to make it up there this next weekend for their Spring game. But we just couldn't work it out to where I was going to be able to make that trip,\" Chickillo said.

For Husker fans they are probably glad the Big Red is in his mind as much as they are. But with Nebraska being the former home of Suh, that's one reason they will stay in the conversation. And it doesn't hurt who is recruiting him. \"Coach J.P. is recruiting me. He's a really cool guy,\" Chickillo said of Defensive Ends Coach John Papuchis, arguably the best recruiter for the Huskers. \"I know they send me a lot of mail. They are definitely one of the schools recruiting me the hardest right now.\"

You can imagine that Chickillo doesn't have any favorites, but he said that he'll have to have sometime soon. With the clear idea that he wants to enroll early, he's going to have to make up his mind at least on a list of favorites before his final season begins.

He's hoping that's how it works out.

\"Yeah, that's what I am trying to do. I want to have a top five before the end of the Summer,\" he said.

Cue the traveling music?

Those schools above are those he believes he'll make it to see. But the list of the other schools he'd like to stop by and check out, that's a list a whole lot longer. Chickillo said that Nebraska is still a very real shot to be a trip he can make, either in June or July. But we'll probably have to wait until around then to see if that actually pans out.

But there are no favorites on Chickillo's monumental list, at least right now. But we know it will probably only be a couple of months before that changes, perhaps dramatically.